Anesthesia for bariatric surgery- our experience

Amol Yerne, Jayashree Patki, Narehkumar Reddy, Laxmikanth T

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 Amol Yerne¹, Jayashree Patki^2,*, Narehkumar Reddy² and Laxmikanth T³

¹DNB-Post graduate, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India

²Department of Anesthesiology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India

³Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India

*Corresponding author: Dr. Jayashree Patki, MBBS, MD, Consultant Anesthesiologist, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India, Email: pjayashree311@gmail.com.

Received 12 June 2012; Revised 29 July 2013; Accepted 10 August 2013

Citation: Amol Yerne, Jayashree Patki, Narehkumar Reddy, Laxmikanth T. Anesthesia for bariatric surgery- our experience. J Med Sci Res 2013; 1(3): 109-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/JMSR.2013/1-019

Copyright: © 2013 Amol Yerne et al. Published by KIMS Foundation and Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Abstract

Bariatric surgery is becoming a popular choice for the treatment of morbid obesity. Laproscopy-sleeve gastrectomy is one of the most effective methods for treating patients with morbid obesity. Anaesthesiologist has a very important role to play in the management of these patients. Though the surgery involves a younger age group, perioperative period is complicated by virtue of their size and/or weight and the presence of significant coexisting diseases leading to pharmacological alterations for anaesthetic agents. While managing 150 patients over a period of time, we have tried to form a specific protocol, using it successfully. All the anaesthetic implications are not discussed in the following article. A brief introduction of obesity and how we have tried to use a different approach successfully in managing these patients at our institution is reported here.

Keywords: General anaesthesia; Morbid obesity; Laproscopy, Sleeve gastrectomy; Bariatrics